Can you use video in HTML emails?, the answer to this is yes absolutely. Only a couple of email clients can currently support HTML Email Video, which is not so cool; Apple iPhone Apple iPad Apple Mac Mail All the rest including Outlook, Gmail, Lotus Notes and Hotmail do not support video, however they can …
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Changing the Thumbnail Size for Genesis Featured Posts Widget
Genesis has a great Featured Posts widget with a lot of options to configure including whether or not to include a thumbnail image, the thumbnail will be the Featured Image if set, and if not set is the last image used inside the post. The thumbnail image size will list available sizes that you can …
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Where is the Network Utility in OSX 10.9 Mavericks
The Network Utility has been moved in OSX 10.9 Mavericks, it used to be in the Applications/Utilities folder but now has been moved from there into the Core Services directory. Get it with Spotlight Just get to it with Spotlight. The actual Core Services directory can be found in /System/Library/Core Services and Network Utility is …
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Setting Up different Internet Explorer Testing Environments via Virtual Images
If you are developing any content for Web and are doing so on a Mac, you need some type of testing in your local development environment for Internet Explorer especially version 8. There are a couple of options available with Browser Stack being a great online browser testing solution for all platforms and browser versions. …
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Removing the Authors Name from the Post Info in Genesis Child Theme
By default in a Genesis child theme the post-info info on a blog single post contains the article date, authors name and comment link. To change these details such as remove the authors name from the blog post, you can adjust what is output by adding a filter and function to the functions.php file of the child theme. …
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Create Custom Post Types in Genesis Child Theme in WordPress
Custom Post Types are a great way to structure your data and also to provide an interface for an end user to easily populate data as in any content management system. There are WP plugins available for download that can create and manage custom post types but you can also follow WordPress functions and do …
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Creating Full Width Fluid Divs in Genesis Theme for Sales/Landing Page
Its colorful and long and goes on and on and on – sales landing pages. To create these types of pages in a Genesis child theme you need to edit the CSS for the inner part of the page and then create some new CSS which you can add in multiple sections that expand …
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How to add a MySQL password for XAMPP on OSX
By default an installation of XAMPP is passwordless, which is not so cool. To secure it launch Terminal in Applications/Utilities and run: sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp security This will put you into an interactive dialog with the command… Here you can set 3 passwords: the XAMPP home page aka http://localhost/xampp/ MySQL phpMyAdmin FTP What you …
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